“Saturday Night Live” is known for pushing the limits, but the NBC spoof show may have gone too far with a recent skit that mocked Jesus.The inflammatory Feb. 16 skit, inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s excessively violent “Django Unchained,” was titled “DJesus Uncrossed” and depicted a post-resurrection Jesus (played by host Christoph Waltz) slaughtering Roman soldiers with a sword.“He’s risen from the dead,” the narrator announced. “And he’s preaching anything but forgiveness.”The skit didn’t go over well with two of America’s oldest and largest retailers—JCPenney and Sears. Both stores decided to pull their advertising from “Saturday Night Live,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by the American Family Association (AFA), an organization which focuses on the social implications of television and media.The decision came after AFA and its supporters notified both major companies of the show’s recent portrayal of Jesus Christ “as a revenge-seeking murderer is an affront to all people of faith, especially Christians” and subsequently encouraged them to pull their advertising from the show and the show’s website.“NBC would never do this to any other religious group, but it’s popular in Hollywood circles to go after ‘crazy’ Christians,” Tim Wildman, president of American Family Association, told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column.AFA claims that Sears were apparently the first to pull the advertising plug, but as of last week JCPenney had not responded, prompting Christians around the country to petition the mega-retailer to follow in the footsteps of Sears.And now it seems they have done just that.Sears sent a letter to AFA, thanking them for bringing the issue to their attention. A Sears rep told FOX 411 that the company has “taken steps to ensure that our commercials do not air online exactly as they did in this situation." JCPenney reps have not spoken about the controversy, but the retailer opted not to advertise on the next ‘SNL’ show and promptly removed their ad from the online version of the controversial episode.The AFA is now urging supporters to call the headquarters for Sears and JCPenney, or leave a comment on their Facebook pages, thanking them for taking a stand.“As long as corporations support this kind of offensive material, their sales are going to suffer as shoppers abandon retailers that support blasphemy. I hope folks can reinstate their patronage to these stores and that Sears and JCPenney can stick with the good decisions they have now made,” Wildman added. “When you embrace television programming with no morals, you can’t possibly embrace the public you are trying to sell to.”JCPenney and NBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Is that what the message was? Or was Tarantino making fun of right wing conservatives who love jesus and love their guns and violence, too? I saw the video and immediately thought that was the message - right wing church going jesus lovers who say hands off my guns/violence.

If those who were upset at SNL's piece want to register their displeasure with the network or their advertisers, they are certainly within their rights to do so. What they HAVEN'T the right to do is attempt to censor SNL or sanction its writers or stars. It's notable that this same kind of parody has been part and parcel of shows such as The Simpsons and South Park, mostly without untoward incident. I've said this before and I'll keep saying it until it sinks in:

Butbutbut isn't this what Jesus is supposed to do during the second coming? Striking all non-believers down willy-nilly and without mercy? Isn't there something about him coming back like a lion (I don't have the energy to look it up)?

If someone had been crucified and somehow survived, they would have extreme PTSD you'd think.

Josephus wrote of someone surviving crucifixion. Actually there have been ideas that Jesus survived crucifixion, that his resurrection was actually resuscitation, and since he was a condemned man, he was spirited away, maybe to India.

I'd love to know how many christers had a good laugh when Everyone Draw Mohammed Day came around the first time, only to get their panties in a twist when Djesus Uncrossed showed up on their TV screens. Seems like sauce for the goose isn't a horse of a different color, after all ... or something like that.

Ah well...JC Penneys needs the money. They'll be out of business soon.

Besides, many of our xtian friends go out of their way to remind us the ten commandments do not forbid killing, just murder. I'm sure DJesus would say it was justifiable homicide, you know, self defense. Besides, the romans weren't jews so it doesn't count.